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Thats from the national weather service. folks inside their home, move to an interior bathroom, a closet. cover yourself with blankets and pillows, a mattress for protection. this is a serious warning in an area that already received considerable damage. we are trying to get an update from the locals. lets take a listen. we are just dipping in as we can to this local news agency as it appears to be driving towards the twister. towards the heart of the tornado. thats how it appears to us, thats o...

Towards the garland area. its a deadly situation down there. megyn: as we watched our local affiliate and the feed is coming in and out. here it is again. you can see through the wipers as they head into the storm -- can you tell us what one would experience when heading into the eye of the storm as opposed to away from it as most americans would do? >> reporter: people want to stay away from this thing as much as possible. they need to get underground. find a tornado shelter. they do not want t...

Miles an hour. thats the latest report i got. not only are we seeing rotation on doppler radar, but we are now getting reports in an around the dallas area of widespread damage. so you dont know -- i have no word. its a situation that you hope that you never see in your lifetime. and hopefully everyone is okay, and they heeded the warnings. but at this point when you see a tornado warning in a heavily populated area, thats your worst case scenario. megyn: how big a danger would the water be comi...

Before the day is out. megyn: how unusual is it for a tornado or tornadoes to hit such a metropolitan area. >> reporter: if you are going to see one in dallas-fort worth it will probably be april. so that happened before. and unfortunately they are happening again. megyn: i dont know if you can see our screen. it looks like a parking lot, truck yard right off the interstate. but the water damage and flooding appears to be significant. >> reporter: these storms had a significant amount of rainfal...

Can see there is one of them. if the video goes on you will see a few more. they can see the twister has touched ground. for us its been an unusual sight. but for those who lived it not so much. that shows you the dangers folks on the ground face when a tornado touches ground. exploding power lines and the like pose an equal danger especially to motorists, one of which we are watching now as we see the live through through a local television crews front windshield. you can see they had the wiper...

Getting it looks like a rainstorm. what are these cars and trucks driving into? we heard reports that a tornado had been spotted and we are hearing the tornado warning affects several major roads down in the dallas-fort worth area. >> reporter: im getting reports we are hearing widespread damage around the dallas-fort worth area. widespread damage and destruction. this is from the associated press. we dont have any confirmation. we are just hearing reports. if any indications on the doppler rada...

So. megyn: you can see that truck on its side. this our affiliate driving closer to the storm as the picture breaks up understandably. well check in with them as well as we talk to gregg for another minute. i want to ask you, one of our affiliate is reporting 18-wheelers were being seen thrown into the air by this tornado. would that be -- does that say anything about the strength or power of the twisters? >> reporter: as we saw this tornado move the last 10-15 minute we could see numerous power...

Tornado. its located near lancaster moving towards dallas. what leads to that characterization? >> reporter: usually what result in that characterization is a visual characterization that you have a tornado meeting those characteristics. i think thats what they were seeing, the video from the helicopter there covering this tornado moving into the area. in order for them to characterize it that way i think you have to have visual you characterization. megyn: its not a term we often hear when we a...

Tornado. megyn: have you seen that before when you have been watching tornado video? >> reporter: i have not seen something like that. unfortunately when you go inside the funnel sometimes you can see the debris being lifted up and that would be an indicator that we are seeing a tornado doing damage. so maybe we can actually talk about the cleburne area. could you ask where that is in relation to dallas-fort worth. >> its south of dl has 45 minutes, i believe. its been spread out. they travel up...

Tornado in and around the dallas-fort worth area. i saw pictures indicating a wall cloud and funnel dropping from that wall cloud. not only are we seeing strong rotation, we are seeing video. i believe we have some video earlier on from minutes ago. you can really see that. you see that funnel? you see that dark cloud? so this is johnson county. they are currently under a tornado warning for the next 8 minutes. this is around the dallas-fort worth area. this is not just a cornfield. this is a me...